From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 21 11:23:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0933514E9E for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:23:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04606; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:23:43 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:23:42 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Michael Lucas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dedicated ISDN flags question In-Reply-To: <199912211757.MAA51493@blackhelicopters.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Michael Lucas wrote: > Hello, > > I have a client who wants to use an ISDN line to connect their office. > Pretty simple setup. > > We're using user PPP with a 3com ISDN terminal unit. The modem keeps > timing out after 30 minutes and disconnecting. We want it to remain > up 24x7, redialing whenever it gets disconnected. > You probably have a timeout set in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ("set timeout 1800" maybe). If not, the remote system could be killing your idle connection. The 3com ISDN TA is highly reliable as far as connection stability goes, according to my experience with it (I'd still rather pay for a Pipeline though :). > I'm using the -auto flag to ppp; should I be using the -ddial flag? > -ddial is the appropriate one. hth -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message